Heinemann

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
BE published her novelKehinde, a story of African expatriates in England, with Heinemann 's African Writers Series.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
BE published another novel, The New Tribe, in Heinemann 's African Writers Series.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
Nova, a magazine that BE describes as a very glossy high-class magazine for the liberated woman, later decided to serialise In the Ditch.Despite the publisher's concerns, it went into many editions, including one...
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
Allison and Busby gave the book to an American publisher, George Braziller , in April 1975, a month after publication, and BE earned ¥322.98. Her publisher also gave her ¥125 publishing fee for the book...
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
The British edition published by Allison and Busby in London came out five months later than the BrazillerNew York edition, even though they had the manuscript first and had sold the rights to Braziller
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
BE had begun The Slave Girl in 1975, but had had to put it aside to revise her previous book, write plays for television and move to a house.
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
191-2, 214
It went into many...
Publishing Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...
Publishing Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin and Heinemann before her friend John Lane accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
Publishing Elaine Feinstein
EF wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
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As an undergraduate at Newnham , she wrote a novel about the...
Literary responses Pamela Frankau
PF 's publishers, Heinemann , wrote her an ecstatic letter soon after publication to say how well this book was doing.
Textual Production John Galsworthy
The Island Pharisees, JG 's first novel to appear under his own name, was published by William Heinemann .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Marrot, Harold Vincent. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
8
Publishing John Galsworthy
Publishers William Heinemann predicted a large demand for the novel: its initial press run was 45,000 copies.
Marrot, Harold Vincent. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
44-5
The following year, the second Forsyte trilogy was re-issued in an omnibus volume entitled A Modern Comedy.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Publishing Constance Garnett
Publisher William Heinemann paid her £40 for this book.
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson.
107
Publishing Constance Garnett
For this her publisher, Heinemann , paid her by the piece: twelve shillings per 1,000 words.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25.
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The work left her eyesight severely weakened, so that she was forced to adopt the method of having...
Publishing Maggie Gee
At her agent's suggestion MG had left Heinemann (which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo , the literary imprint of HarperCollins . This was to...

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Texts

Fraser, Antonia. Political Death. Heinemann, 1994.
Furlong, Monica. Genuine Fake: A Biography of Alan Watts. Heinemann, 1986.
Galsworthy, John. The Man of Property. Heinemann, 1906.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. The Brothers Karamazov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Heinemann, 1912.
Gee, Maggie. Grace. Heinemann, 1988.
Gee, Maggie. Where are the Snows. Heinemann, 1991.
Greene, Graham. Brighton Rock. Heinemann, 1938.
Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. Heinemann, 1948.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. Heinemann, 1955.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Less than the Dust. Heinemann, 1912.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
Head, Bessie. Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind. Heinemann, 1981.
Head, Bessie. The Collector of Treasures. Heinemann, 1977.
Heyer, Georgette. Detection Unlimited. Heinemann, 1953.
Heyer, Georgette. Duplicate Death. Heinemann, 1951.
Heyer, Georgette. Pistols for Two, and Other Stories. Heinemann, 1960.
Heyer, Georgette. The Unknown Ajax. Heinemann, 1959.
Heyer, Georgette. Venetia. Heinemann, 1958.
Highsmith, Patricia. A Dog’s Ransom. Heinemann, 1972.
Highsmith, Patricia. Deep Water. Heinemann, 1958.
Highsmith, Patricia. Edith’s Diary. Heinemann, 1977.
Highsmith, Patricia. Little Tales of Misogyny. Heinemann, 1977.
Highsmith, Patricia. Mermaids on the Golf Course, and Other Stories. Heinemann, 1985.
Highsmith, Patricia. People Who Knock on the Door. Heinemann, 1983.
Highsmith, Patricia. Slowly, Slowly in the Wind. Heinemann, 1979.